Securing Items in the Trunk?

[86MLR]

Originally Posted by soundman98

a few towels

A towel is just about the most massively useful thing any of the interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Partly because it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

..

But our cars don't really have a giant trunk. If you're shopping for five, I would think you would pretty quickly fill up all the trunk floor space so that the groceries would simply pack themselves into a secure position.

Yep, fer sure, fer sure. Not only do the groceries fill the floor of the trunk, they stack to the ceiling of the trunk.

Paper products require a separate run, to Costco..

Even at that, with a bale of pampers, a bale of toilet paper, a bale of paper towels, a bale of Kleenex and a large box of ass wipes, completely fills the trunk and the front seat of my FR-S.


UGH!


(but, I love all four of them - )


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by 86MLR

A towel is just about the most massively useful thing any of the interstellar hitchhiker can carry. Partly because it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."

YIKES! What a post!

Is marijuana now legal in Australia ??




humfrz

[86MLR]

Originally Posted by humfrz

YIKES! What a post!

Is marijuana now legal in Australia ??




humfrz

Your not picking up what I'm putting down.

Surely you've read Douglas Adams??

[Face_Plant]

Originally Posted by Impureclient

What about a extendable bar thingamabob like this:https://www.homedepot.com/p/Cargo-Bo...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

That looks like it would work really well.

Originally Posted by radroach

I used to use two bungee cords from the rear child seat locks running behind into the trunk, crossing over and connected to the roof of the trunk. Its usefulness was so-so.

Best I've done was pack the trunk with pillows from my couch when I transport a 3-ton jack and tools.

I didn't consider using those for bungee cord hooks. I'll give them a shot

Originally Posted by humfrz

YIKES! What a post!

Is marijuana now legal in Australia ??




humfrz

Cannabis will be legal here soon

[gravitylover]

Google trunk organizers. Lots of them fit in very nicely and tend not to slide much, if at all, and even if they do your stuff won't be scattered. I use one now and it's pretty great.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by 86MLR

Your not picking up what I'm putting down.

Surely you've read Douglas Adams??

Sorry, I sure didn't pick up on that -

No, I haven't read any of Douglas Adams writings -

I am not well read -

Here is a bit published by Wiki (for some of the others):

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for a science-fiction comedy radio series pitched by Adams and radio producer Simon Brett to BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Adams came up with an outline for a pilot episode, as well as a few other stories (reprinted in Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could be used in the series.

Towel Day 2005 in Innsbruck, Austria, where Adams first had the idea of The Hitchhiker's Guide. In the novels a towel is the most useful thing a space traveller can have. The annual Towel Day (25 May) was first celebrated in 2001, two weeks after Adams's death.

According to Adams, the idea for the title occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, gazing at the stars. He was carrying a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe, and it occurred to him that "somebody ought to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". He later said that the constant repetition of this anecdote had obliterated his memory of the actual event.[19]"

OK, so it was Adams and the mind alternating drug was alcohol -

Now, I feel ignorant - must be time for another pain pill -


humfrz

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by humfrz

No, I haven't read any of Douglas Adams writings -

You haven't missed anything. It's basically science fiction for children. Most people either haven't read it or grow out of it by the end of high school, although the zealots assume everyone else has read it and is as in awe of it as they are.

When someone starts quoting it, you have to quickly think up an excuse to slip away. Otherwise you'll fall victim to an incomprehensible discourse on the Hitchhiker's universe. The books themselves are not incomprehensible, but the breathless extolment of their virtues and baffling attempts to explain the jokes lead many to want to punch a kitten.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

You haven't missed anything. It's basically science fiction for children. Most people either haven't read it or grow out of it by the end of high school, although the zealots assume everyone else has read it and is as in awe of it as they are.

When someone starts quoting it, you have to quickly think up an excuse to slip away. Otherwise you'll fall victim to an incomprehensible discourse on the Hitchhiker's universe. The books themselves are not incomprehensible, but the breathless extolment of their virtues and baffling attempts to explain the jokes lead many to want to punch a kitten.

Ahhh haaaa.


Thanks for your thoughts, now I don't feel so bad -


humfrz

[Dake]

I bought these years ago. I just tapped a couple holes into the underside of the package shelf and screwed them in.



They work great for grocery bags and the like.

That being said, if you're using a milk crate or something, you could just hook the bungie cord into the existing "lightness holes" in the underside of the package shelf.

[86MLR]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

You haven't missed anything. It's basically science fiction for children. Most people either haven't read it or grow out of it by the end of high school, although the zealots assume everyone else has read it and is as in awe of it as they are.

When someone starts quoting it, you have to quickly think up an excuse to slip away. Otherwise you'll fall victim to an incomprehensible discourse on the Hitchhiker's universe. The books themselves are not incomprehensible, but the breathless extolment of their virtues and baffling attempts to explain the jokes lead many to want to punch a kitten.

You must be the fun one at parties.

[gravitylover]

^^ hahaha

Originally Posted by extrashaky

You haven't missed anything. It's basically science fiction for children. Most people either haven't read it or grow out of it by the end of high school, although the zealots assume everyone else has read it and is as in awe of it as they are.

When someone starts quoting it, you have to quickly think up an excuse to slip away. Otherwise you'll fall victim to an incomprehensible discourse on the Hitchhiker's universe. The books themselves are not incomprehensible, but the breathless extolment of their virtues and baffling attempts to explain the jokes lead many to want to punch a kitten.

I like that analogy, gonna have to use it. My wife and kids like the kicking a puppy one

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by 86MLR

You must be the fun one at parties.

Certainly more fun than the guy who won't shut up about his towel and the number 42.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Certainly more fun than the guy who won't shut up about his towel and the number 42.

Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.